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SAT Question of the Day Explained – December 3, 2014 – Math

Today’s SAT Question of the Day is a math question about counting.  These simplistic questions often contain more than meets the eye – and this one is testing your knowledge of a simple rule of counting.

On the last day of a one-week sale, customers numbered 149 through 201 were waited on. How many customers were waited on that day?

I bet most of you just subtracted 149 from 201, bubbled in 52, and moved on.  But what if I told you that isn’t the answer? Continue reading